The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's director, Rohit Chopra, has elevated a longtime bureau staffer to be its deputy director.
Zixta Q. Martinez on Wednesday was named the bureau's No. 2 executive and given the added responsibility of overseeing the operations division.
The deputy director position had been vacant since the retirement in January of Tom Pahl, who was a Republican political appointee.
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Martinez most recently had been a senior advisor for the bureau’s supervision, enforcement and fair lending division. Previously she was an associate director for external affairs and an assistant director for the office of community affairs.
Before joining the CFPB she was a senior director of industry and state relations at Freddie Mac, and had been a director at the National Fair Housing Alliance and several other consumer advocacy groups. She had been an associate staffer on a housing subcommittee of the House Banking Committee, too.
The CFPB also named Karen Andre associate director for consumer education and external affairs. Andre had been a special assistant to President Biden for economic agency personnel within the executive office of the president. She worked on Biden’s 2020 campaign team, including as a senior advisor for national faith outreach. Andre worked on the Biden transition team as the COVID-19 engagement team lead and had been a White House liaison for the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Moreover, the CFPB appointed Erie Meyer as chief technologist. Meyer had been a technology advisor to Chopra when he served on the Federal Trade Commission. She most recently was a senior advisor for policy planning for FTC Chairman Lena Khan and served as the FTC’s chief technologist.
Before the FTC, Meyer had launched the U.S. Digital Service in the White House.
